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- Only one.
- That's enough, stand back.
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Behold!
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The traitor dragon Meleys!
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Slain at Rook's Rest by your king!
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To Aegon!
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- It can't be...
- They killed a dragon!
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Mark my words, this is a black omen.
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Rhaenyra will answer this.
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'Tis an abomination.
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Don't they realize we won the battle?
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Strange victory
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if it was one.
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Behold!
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The traitor dragon Meleys!
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I thought the dragons was gods.
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Slain at Rook's Rest by your king!
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It's just meat.
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Is he alive?
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His Grace
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remains with us, for the moment.
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Is my son going to die?
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I'm afraid I cannot say.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, Your Grace,
these next hours are most critical.
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Of course.
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Easy as you can.
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Someone will have to rule in his stead.
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- What happened?
- We took the castle.
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At the cost of some 900 men.
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So I've heard.
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I left a meager garrison
behind to protect it
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and the king's dragon.
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Sunfyre was long in the dying.
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The king, Ser Criston, what befell him?
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His Grace fought valiantly.
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And Aemond?
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What was his part in this?
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I could not say.
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Our largest dragon has been killed.
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Criston Cole marches
about the Crownlands unchallenged.
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Duskendale and Rook's Rest are gone.
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We still have no ground army
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but the one we hope
that Daemon will raise.
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He who has left us,
after some marital spat.
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Do you take issue with me, Ser Alfred?
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My loyalty to you is proven, my queen.
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Your loyalty, perhaps,
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but your willingness to give me deference
in a time of war.
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I could never doubt your capability,
or your quickness of mind.
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It is merely that the gentler sex,
heretofore, has not been much privy
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to the strategies of battle,
or their execution.
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There has been peace in our lifetime.
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You've seen no more battles than I have.
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Send to Maidenpool and to Crackclaw Point.
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Let them man their garrisons
and give them stores or weapons
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if they find them wanting.
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If Cole pursues his campaign,
our allies must be ready.
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We must answer Rook's Rest
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- and Duskendale.
- They are lost already.
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But Vhagar is depleted
after such a hard-fought battle.
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If Aegon is dead...
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We will soon know it.
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'Twould be a victory in name only.
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They will soon prop up another
in his stead.
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The time is ripe.
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If we can strike King's Landing
before their dragon is recovered...
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Then I myself must do it.
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My queen, you are the crown.
It is out of the question.
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What would you have me do?
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Jace?
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Where are you going?
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To Harrenhal.
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To treat with Daemon.
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Rhaenys is fallen.
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He must affirm his loyalty to my mother
and report his standing.
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And you think you will tame him
when the queen herself could not?
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My mother gladly sends you away
to scout, to fight,
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whilst I'm here being forced to play
the coddled princeling.
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It's humiliating, Baela.
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She only protects you.
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You are the succession.
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Then I must be seen to act for her claim
and mine.
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I can sit still no longer.
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I must act.
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The Freys.
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They control the crossing at the Twins.
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Cregan Stark's graybeards
are marching south.
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If his men had a direct route
into the Riverlands,
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we would not have to wait
for Daemon to act.
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I will treat with The Freys to secure it.
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She will not like it.
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Then don't tell her. Not until I'm away.
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{\an8}The hour is late
and my dragon is hungry.
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{\an8}You have no choice but to submit.
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Our terms are simple, Lord Bracken.
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Renounce the false king Aegon as a usurper
and bend the knee to me
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or your house burns.
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I would sooner be
the Lord of Bones and Cinders
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than bend my knee before some heathen
Blackwood cunt
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and his hired dragon.
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The Brackens were a people hatched out
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of the deepest of the Seven Hells,
Your Grace.
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It would be a kindness to oblige them
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and send them back whence they came.
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Did your brother's head
keep on its way back to you, Willem?
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I heard the maggots got to it.
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That is quite the impression,
Lord Bracken.
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But alas, not an answer.
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We choose fire.
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I did not think they would be
so eager to die.
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They made their choice.
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- You should've indulged them.
- I need them alive.
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I came here to raise swords, not corpses.
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But now you see what my house
has known for generations.
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They are pigheaded, intransigent...
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They would rather burn than succumb.
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Exactly the kind of men I need.
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It may yet be possible, I think,
for both of us to achieve our ends.
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We have fought them for an age and more.
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Then perhaps you could try
less fighting and more
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persuading.
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They are unyielding in battle.
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But every man has a weakness.
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You take my meaning, then.
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There are things the crown itself must
not been seen to do.
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Show them your worst.
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I am your servant, Your Grace.
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Over the centuries,
many and more armies
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have broken themselves
against my bloody gate.
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Are you listening?
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My lady.
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The Eyrie itself is impregnable.
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Unless, of course,
we're descended upon from the sky.
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You promised the Queen Rhaenyra
15,000 swords...
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In return for protection. A dragon.
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Then she has exceeded your terms.
She sent two.
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Both still wet from the egg.
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I have hunting hounds
that are more fearsome.
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They are dragons nonetheless.
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I do not recall you specifying
the size of the beast in your request.
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Will you goad me, child?
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When your bread and shelter
now depend on my pleasure?
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The dragons will grow
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- in time.
- I don't have time.
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I mislike feeling powerless.
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So do I.
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This will be your chamber.
I'll expect you at supper this evening?
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My sympathies for the death
of your grandmother.
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The way they spoke
at my small council today.
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Do they hold you responsible
for Rhaenys and her dragon?
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I would rather they had.
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They speak around me, not to me.
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They would make me queen,
but they wish to keep me here, confined.
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They betray their own smallness.
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In truth, I cannot fault them.
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I am now the sovereign.
I cannot do as I please.
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And war has ever been for men to make.
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You are your father’s chosen successor.
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He did not prepare me to fight.
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If I had been a son,
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a sword thrust into my hand
the moment I could walk.
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Instead, I was given my father's cup,
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taught the name of every lord and castle
between Storm's End and the Twins,
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but not the difference
between hilt and foible.
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And they know it.
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And Daemon as well...
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Shall your evening meal
be served here, Your Grace?
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Not now.
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Will you send to him?
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For too long,
I have looked to him for strength.
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If I must be supplicant to my own husband,
what does that make me?
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I do not know my part, Mysaria.
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The path I walk has never been trod.
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Criston Cole made a mistake.
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Parading a dragon's head
through the streets like a prize of war,
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but the people see an ill omen.
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Yes, as do I.
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They are afraid, bread is scarce,
the king has fallen,
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they whisper to each other
that when Viserys lived,
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there was peace.
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But will whispers tear down stone,
or break shields?
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Do not underestimate your subjects.
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They are a thousand-thousand
living in the shadow of the Red Keep
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and forgotten for too long.
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And you think they will turn to me.
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To the discontented, rumors are feed.
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Your Grace.
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What you cannot do, let others do for you.
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There is more than one way to fight a war.
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The thought of her lying in a field,
broken amongst her enemies.
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Did your grandmother ever tell you
of the night she claimed Meleys?
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She snuck into the Dragonpit.
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She knew that place better than any Elder.
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They say she could see in the dark.
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My father was furious.
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His own mother's dragon,
the fastest beast ever known
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and she'd have none of him.
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But bent her neck to Rhaenys.
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She was fierce
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in love and in anger.
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She did not always care for me, but
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for what she gave me in the end,
I'm grateful.
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I wished I had known her
when she was young.
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You are very like her in some ways.
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And with her gone,
I must rely on you, I think.
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Your Grace?
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Would you give this to your grandsire?
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I do not wish to stand alone.
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Daemon.
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Daemon.
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You were always the strong one.
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The finest swordsman.
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The fearless dragonrider.
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{\an8}Your brother had great love in his heart
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but he lacked your constitution.
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Viserys was unsuited for the crown
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but you, Daemon,
you were made to wear it.
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If only you'd been born first.
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My favorite son.
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Is the duck not to your liking,
Your Grace?
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There's also goose, if you'd prefer it.
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I like the goose, myself.
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I'm not hungry.
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I was saying, given the rather dire news
from Rook's Rest
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it appears the winds have shifted
and each side has suffered great loss
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and will be unsure of what is to follow.
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A good time, then, for a show of strength.
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I believe Willem Blackwood
is bringing House Bracken to heel.
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We must ready the castle
to receive a great host.
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You seem sure of this.
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All men may be led, Ser Simon.
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Even Rivermen.
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'Tis a matter of showing them
whom it behooves them to follow.
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How does the work here progress?
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Oh...
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We're drawing water for the kitchens
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- and lighting the forges.
- Very well.
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That is merely the beginning, of course.
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The roof alone has needed tending
since the reign of Aenys.
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And the storerooms. And...
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and the Wailing Tower.
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The bats have made the corridors
almost impassable
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with the quantity of their...
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Their shit.
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{\an8}I venture there are smiths and armorers
to be found near Nutton and Riverbend.
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{\an8}Well, send for them, and levy the farmers
from Antlers to High Heart.
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Task their huntsmen
to bring us meat and wood.
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There is, of course,
the matter of payment.
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After the tragedy that befell his father,
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Larys transferred his family's wealth
to King's Landing.
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Is there any gold left in your coffers?
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Enough to keep this small establishment
you see fed and warm.
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Relatively.
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I rather thought, Your Grace,
as emissary to the Queen
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that perhaps she could provide
the necessary coin
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- if you could only write to her.
- No.
256
00:27:00,244 --> 00:27:02,246
Harrenhal is my command.
257
00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:05,458
I shall guarantee the payment myself.
258
00:27:06,542 --> 00:27:08,127
Up, up.
259
00:27:11,255 --> 00:27:13,257
Very well, Your Grace.
260
00:27:13,758 --> 00:27:16,552
You should address me as "my king."
261
00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:18,846
But you're the prince.
262
00:27:19,389 --> 00:27:21,556
What would you call
the husband of the queen?
263
00:27:21,557 --> 00:27:23,225
- Well, the king...
- There it is, then.
264
00:27:23,226 --> 00:27:24,727
consort.
265
00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:28,606
That last bit seems unnecessary,
don't you think?
266
00:27:34,570 --> 00:27:36,697
The armor was Valyrian steel
267
00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:40,743
but His Grace suffered grievous burns over
much of his body.
268
00:27:41,911 --> 00:27:43,787
He has many broken bones.
269
00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:49,168
I fear there are more injuries within,
injuries we cannot see.
270
00:27:51,546 --> 00:27:53,965
We are grateful for your works,
Grand Maester.
271
00:27:55,216 --> 00:27:57,635
- Has he woken?
- No.
272
00:27:59,262 --> 00:28:03,849
I must admit,
I'm not sure he will ever wake.
273
00:28:03,850 --> 00:28:07,269
I have plied my crafts
to their fullest extents.
274
00:28:07,270 --> 00:28:11,232
Our king's fate lies with the gods now.
275
00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:24,037
A king cannot rule in his sleep.
276
00:28:25,121 --> 00:28:27,331
The realm will have noticed his absence.
277
00:28:28,041 --> 00:28:30,251
Let them hear of his great deeds
at Rook's Rest.
278
00:28:31,753 --> 00:28:34,463
But now we must name a regent
to take his place
279
00:28:34,464 --> 00:28:36,174
until he recovers
280
00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:39,761
or does not.
281
00:28:41,429 --> 00:28:43,722
A wise strategy, Your Grace.
282
00:28:43,723 --> 00:28:47,852
A regency will assure the people
of the stability of the crown.
283
00:28:50,688 --> 00:28:53,691
Did you have a candidate in mind,
Your Grace?
284
00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:56,068
I myself served in this role
for my husband.
285
00:28:56,069 --> 00:28:57,611
I am well-prepared to do it again.
286
00:28:57,612 --> 00:29:00,739
You played your part admirably
in a time of peace, Your Grace,
287
00:29:00,740 --> 00:29:02,700
but circumstances have changed.
288
00:29:03,451 --> 00:29:05,077
And here I had forgotten.
289
00:29:05,078 --> 00:29:07,371
The king does not lack for heirs.
290
00:29:07,372 --> 00:29:12,209
The obvious choice is
his immediate successor, Prince Aemond.
291
00:29:12,210 --> 00:29:13,627
Agreed.
292
00:29:13,628 --> 00:29:15,338
Aemond is young.
293
00:29:16,756 --> 00:29:19,258
And his lack of restraint
has already cost us dearly.
294
00:29:28,935 --> 00:29:32,896
It is experience that offers
the surest path to security.
295
00:29:32,897 --> 00:29:36,024
Queen Alicent ably
shouldered the duties of the realm
296
00:29:36,025 --> 00:29:37,651
when her husband's health failed him.
297
00:29:37,652 --> 00:29:40,571
Experience is valuable, yes,
but the dowager queen is a woman.
298
00:29:40,697 --> 00:29:43,740
I am no stranger to rule
or to sitting at this council.
299
00:29:43,741 --> 00:29:45,242
Aemond is a fearsome dragonrider.
300
00:29:45,243 --> 00:29:46,618
His skill is best employed in the field
301
00:29:46,619 --> 00:29:49,413
but my experience is needed here,
at this table.
302
00:29:49,414 --> 00:29:51,873
No offense was meant, Your Grace, but
303
00:29:51,874 --> 00:29:55,962
- at a time when we must show strength.
- Lord Larys?
304
00:29:57,213 --> 00:29:59,465
I agree, Your Grace.
It must be Prince Aemond.
305
00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:04,052
What would it say if,
in response to Rhaenyra's crowning,
306
00:30:04,053 --> 00:30:06,347
we raised up a woman of our own?
307
00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:09,851
But...
308
00:30:12,186 --> 00:30:16,149
but the Hand speaks for the king's voice.
Ser Criston, what say you?
309
00:30:23,156 --> 00:30:25,366
Aemond is the next in line.
310
00:30:27,535 --> 00:30:28,953
It must be him.
311
00:30:33,583 --> 00:30:35,585
It's agreed then.
312
00:30:57,106 --> 00:30:59,359
What is our standing in the Riverlands?
313
00:31:01,235 --> 00:31:05,739
The banners of House Tully
are in disarray, Your Grace.
314
00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:10,119
Prince Daemon has little hope
of fielding an army of any size, for now.
315
00:31:11,371 --> 00:31:13,331
We would do well to send word
to young Oscar Tully.
316
00:31:14,082 --> 00:31:17,542
It's only a matter of time
before he inherits his grandsire's mantle.
317
00:31:17,543 --> 00:31:21,254
Tell me, Lord Strong,
how I can trust the counsel of a man
318
00:31:21,255 --> 00:31:24,634
who leaves the jewel of the Riverlands
to be plucked by our enemy?
319
00:31:29,013 --> 00:31:30,389
Your brother's host can meet Daemon.
320
00:31:30,390 --> 00:31:32,891
He should quicken its pace
and check the Rivermen
321
00:31:32,892 --> 00:31:34,518
while their banners are in disarray.
322
00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:36,895
I shall send Lord Jason encouragement.
323
00:31:36,896 --> 00:31:39,606
- What else?
- We might turn our attention
324
00:31:39,607 --> 00:31:42,109
to the smallfolk here in King's Landing.
325
00:31:42,110 --> 00:31:44,611
They have grown weary
of the Sea Snake's blockade.
326
00:31:44,612 --> 00:31:46,822
So have we all.
327
00:31:46,823 --> 00:31:51,369
Many are fleeing the city,
spreading word of their fear and unrest.
328
00:31:52,495 --> 00:31:54,747
Then let the gates be closed.
329
00:31:57,041 --> 00:31:59,501
No one is to leave or enter,
save with our consent.
330
00:31:59,502 --> 00:32:02,422
Merchants, so forth.
331
00:32:06,676 --> 00:32:08,511
Go to your tasks.
332
00:32:09,429 --> 00:32:11,805
We shall meet again at first light.
333
00:32:11,806 --> 00:32:15,601
Oh, and someone cut down
the fucking ratcatchers.
334
00:32:22,775 --> 00:32:24,986
The city's safe no longer.
335
00:32:26,821 --> 00:32:28,239
There is no food.
336
00:32:29,323 --> 00:32:31,116
Our neighbors are stealing
from each other.
337
00:32:31,117 --> 00:32:32,492
We must get out.
338
00:32:32,493 --> 00:32:33,870
{\an8}And where would you have us go?
339
00:32:34,454 --> 00:32:36,664
North, maybe? South?
340
00:32:37,415 --> 00:32:39,417
For all we know, every road leads
into the dragons' teeth.
341
00:32:39,542 --> 00:32:41,753
Like the one they carted
through the streets?
342
00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:46,674
You think Rhaenyra will let
such an affront go unchallenged?
343
00:32:49,761 --> 00:32:52,471
We should make for Tumbleton.
344
00:32:52,472 --> 00:32:54,514
My brother will have room.
345
00:32:54,515 --> 00:32:56,434
You would have me turn beggar?
346
00:33:02,482 --> 00:33:04,484
Are we not beggars already?
347
00:33:05,485 --> 00:33:08,070
Have you been paid for those machines
you were forced to build?
348
00:33:08,071 --> 00:33:09,738
The king has promised payment.
349
00:33:09,739 --> 00:33:12,658
The king has lied!
350
00:33:24,253 --> 00:33:26,089
By all means,
351
00:33:26,923 --> 00:33:30,343
stay and wait
for his empty promises, husband.
352
00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:35,264
With them, you can feed
the mouths of ghosts.
353
00:34:14,637 --> 00:34:16,305
Presumed you'd be here.
354
00:34:17,098 --> 00:34:19,642
Seeing faithfully
to the Prince Regent's commands.
355
00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:22,477
Aemond is the next in line.
356
00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:23,729
It is the order of things.
357
00:34:23,730 --> 00:34:25,480
You know what he is,
358
00:34:25,481 --> 00:34:27,567
what he has somehow become.
359
00:34:30,778 --> 00:34:33,655
Has your loyalty faded?
Or does it flourish only at night
360
00:34:33,656 --> 00:34:36,409
and flee the sunrise like a moth?
361
00:34:40,288 --> 00:34:41,705
What I saw at Rook's Rest...
362
00:34:41,706 --> 00:34:45,001
What? What did you see?
363
00:34:49,172 --> 00:34:51,174
Their armor melted.
364
00:34:52,925 --> 00:34:55,553
There were men walking. They were on fire.
365
00:34:58,973 --> 00:35:01,184
We have given the war to the dragons.
366
00:35:02,769 --> 00:35:04,312
A dragonrider should lead us.
367
00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:13,571
And what of justice, of temperance?
Or is strength now to be our only god?
368
00:35:19,577 --> 00:35:21,579
So you cast me aside.
369
00:35:22,747 --> 00:35:24,749
Have I not spared you?
370
00:35:26,668 --> 00:35:30,296
What we must do now is terrible.
371
00:35:32,256 --> 00:35:34,258
Will you preside over it?
372
00:35:34,884 --> 00:35:37,804
- Is this who you are, Alicent?
- I did not ask to be spared.
373
00:35:41,974 --> 00:35:43,976
And I did not give you leave
to speak my name.
374
00:35:57,365 --> 00:35:58,449
Halt!
375
00:36:04,455 --> 00:36:05,581
Stay back!
376
00:36:07,458 --> 00:36:09,085
We've got to get out!
377
00:36:09,961 --> 00:36:11,462
Somebody get him!
378
00:36:12,213 --> 00:36:14,297
Stay back! No!
379
00:36:14,298 --> 00:36:16,718
Holdfast, holdfast!
380
00:36:17,176 --> 00:36:19,012
Stay back! Hold!
381
00:36:24,142 --> 00:36:24,976
Back!
382
00:36:26,019 --> 00:36:28,855
Disperse, disperse!
383
00:36:30,148 --> 00:36:32,482
By order of Aemond Targaryen,
384
00:36:32,483 --> 00:36:35,360
Prince Regent
and Protector of the Realm...
385
00:36:35,361 --> 00:36:37,863
- Aemond?
- Does he mean the king?
386
00:36:37,864 --> 00:36:40,240
- I don't know.
- You cannot keep us here!
387
00:36:40,241 --> 00:36:43,201
- You are ordered to return to your homes!
- We want meat!
388
00:36:43,202 --> 00:36:44,787
- Meat!
- Meat!
389
00:36:55,089 --> 00:36:56,507
Stay back!
390
00:37:04,515 --> 00:37:07,727
Our Lord Grover Tully
has not declared for Rhaenyra.
391
00:37:08,936 --> 00:37:11,021
It means death to bare steel
against your liege,
392
00:37:11,022 --> 00:37:13,316
as I'm sure my prince is aware.
393
00:37:14,859 --> 00:37:16,819
And against your queen?
394
00:37:25,495 --> 00:37:27,830
Jason Lannister is marshaling to the west.
395
00:37:28,873 --> 00:37:30,875
We need to check him
before he reaches Riverrun.
396
00:37:31,876 --> 00:37:33,794
That requires passage.
397
00:37:33,795 --> 00:37:38,048
And if Stark's army is too slow?
The wind's rising.
398
00:37:38,049 --> 00:37:39,716
Winter is nigh upon us.
399
00:37:39,717 --> 00:37:43,470
Our hesitance does not lie
in Rhaenyra as Queen,
400
00:37:43,471 --> 00:37:46,974
nor in the ruminations
of Lord Tully, the oaf.
401
00:37:47,809 --> 00:37:50,686
Our fear lies in Vhagar.
402
00:37:50,687 --> 00:37:56,359
You fear a dragon leagues away
when mine own sits outside your walls?
403
00:38:00,697 --> 00:38:03,950
- Do you offer us your protection?
- I do.
404
00:38:10,665 --> 00:38:12,583
And the protection of my uncle.
405
00:38:13,876 --> 00:38:18,046
And Daemon, I'm sure,
has consented to this?
406
00:38:18,047 --> 00:38:20,132
He will do as his queen commands.
407
00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:22,092
That does lend us some comfort.
408
00:38:22,093 --> 00:38:25,262
Though it occurs to me that dragons
cannot be in two places at once.
409
00:38:25,263 --> 00:38:26,889
Or three.
410
00:38:29,851 --> 00:38:31,602
What do you want?
411
00:38:33,980 --> 00:38:37,899
Larys Strong has been
relieved of his castle.
412
00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,945
Does the queen intend
to raise up a new lord?
413
00:38:45,491 --> 00:38:46,826
You want Harrenhal.
414
00:39:05,845 --> 00:39:09,682
For that, my mother will want
more than your crossing.
415
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,562
What does Her Grace desire?
416
00:39:17,190 --> 00:39:19,400
Bent knees.
417
00:40:13,246 --> 00:40:14,455
Up.
418
00:40:15,665 --> 00:40:19,502
You were born to wield a sword,
but not so much an axe, perhaps.
419
00:40:21,129 --> 00:40:22,879
There are others who would sit idle
420
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,923
and wait for their claims
to be brought to them.
421
00:40:24,924 --> 00:40:25,966
That is not my way.
422
00:40:25,967 --> 00:40:28,260
Does splitting firewood justify
what's followed you here?
423
00:40:28,261 --> 00:40:32,681
Let it not be said that Daemon Targaryen
failed to dirty his hands in this war.
424
00:40:32,682 --> 00:40:34,600
Let me see them.
425
00:40:36,102 --> 00:40:37,020
Sit.
426
00:40:37,770 --> 00:40:38,980
Sit!
427
00:40:43,860 --> 00:40:48,990
I hear strange things from Bracken land,
from Stone Hedge and Lambswold and Mory.
428
00:40:50,074 --> 00:40:52,117
There's news, then?
429
00:40:52,118 --> 00:40:53,286
News?
430
00:40:54,579 --> 00:40:55,580
No.
431
00:40:57,749 --> 00:41:00,460
What I hear, I hear in the wind.
432
00:41:01,711 --> 00:41:03,546
Cries of anguish.
433
00:41:05,506 --> 00:41:07,549
Children being taken from their mothers,
434
00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:11,470
men coming home
to find their doors unlatched,
435
00:41:11,471 --> 00:41:13,723
their wives carried away.
436
00:41:15,933 --> 00:41:18,144
War is a terrible thing.
437
00:41:18,686 --> 00:41:20,521
This is not war.
438
00:41:21,314 --> 00:41:26,151
These are crimes against the innocent,
that any upright man would repudiate.
439
00:41:26,152 --> 00:41:28,696
Surely you haven't mistaken me
for an upright man.
440
00:41:30,823 --> 00:41:33,576
The Brackens had their chance
to do as I required.
441
00:41:34,494 --> 00:41:36,453
They will perhaps think better
of their decision
442
00:41:36,454 --> 00:41:39,791
if their children's lives
are staked on it.
443
00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:43,503
Is that the kind of army you would raise?
444
00:41:44,504 --> 00:41:46,506
Men who hate you,
445
00:41:47,215 --> 00:41:48,924
who serve you under duress?
446
00:41:48,925 --> 00:41:52,010
Well, once they agree to serve me,
I'll treat them fairly.
447
00:41:52,011 --> 00:41:55,430
Set an example for the rest
of the Riverlands to follow.
448
00:41:55,431 --> 00:41:57,891
And once again, in the name of power,
449
00:41:57,892 --> 00:42:00,728
it's the weak and the women
who must endure.
450
00:42:03,606 --> 00:42:06,442
That fool, Aegon, is unlike to survive.
451
00:42:08,569 --> 00:42:10,780
The realm will suffer
if Aemond One-Eye rules.
452
00:42:12,407 --> 00:42:13,866
You should pray you never meet him.
453
00:42:14,575 --> 00:42:16,868
He will cut you down
soon as wish you good-day.
454
00:42:16,869 --> 00:42:19,579
I'd heard the same thing about you.
But I'll cross you no further.
455
00:42:19,580 --> 00:42:22,917
I'm sure your tactics are, after all,
approved by the queen.
456
00:42:28,506 --> 00:42:30,341
She cannot succeed, Alys.
457
00:42:31,384 --> 00:42:33,552
Even if I willed it to be so.
458
00:42:33,553 --> 00:42:35,679
The people who support her
will not be led by her.
459
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,806
They look to a man for strength.
460
00:42:37,807 --> 00:42:41,393
Who's better suited to it?
The Hightowers with their scheming?
461
00:42:41,394 --> 00:42:43,688
Or Viserys's first true heir?
462
00:42:44,856 --> 00:42:47,232
When I take King's Landing,
463
00:42:47,233 --> 00:42:51,278
Rhaenyra is welcome to join me there
and take her place by my side.
464
00:42:51,279 --> 00:42:55,366
King and queen, ruling together.
465
00:42:55,992 --> 00:42:58,660
- And if you lose?
- Then I'll be dead,
466
00:42:58,661 --> 00:43:00,996
and none of this will be my problem.
467
00:43:00,997 --> 00:43:04,250
It's a pity, don't you think,
that you never knew your mother?
468
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,006
A message, Your Grace.
469
00:43:15,386 --> 00:43:17,971
Fresh news from Stone Hedge.
470
00:43:17,972 --> 00:43:20,265
The Blackwoods have overwhelmed
the Brackens
471
00:43:20,266 --> 00:43:23,603
and Lord Amos has pledged
his banner to you.
472
00:43:24,103 --> 00:43:26,314
House Bracken is yours.
473
00:43:27,732 --> 00:43:30,318
Call Ser Willem here
so that I might congratulate him.
474
00:43:30,818 --> 00:43:33,446
The Blackwoods will be
feted in these halls.
475
00:43:44,874 --> 00:43:46,876
I sought you at High Tide.
476
00:43:47,627 --> 00:43:49,921
I was surprised when they said
you were here.
477
00:43:51,047 --> 00:43:53,049
My castle is a tomb.
478
00:43:54,384 --> 00:43:56,594
Empty. Haunted.
479
00:43:57,428 --> 00:44:00,348
I am sad to have missed its highest days.
480
00:44:01,349 --> 00:44:05,060
I imagine your Hall of Nine
filled with lords and kings,
481
00:44:05,061 --> 00:44:08,189
all eager to treat with the legendary
Lord of the Tides.
482
00:44:10,066 --> 00:44:12,734
The wealth you brought back
from Yi Ti and Asshai,
483
00:44:12,735 --> 00:44:15,738
inspiring awe and envy.
484
00:44:18,199 --> 00:44:20,201
I wonder if any of them knew
it was all for her.
485
00:44:29,335 --> 00:44:31,629
Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand.
486
00:44:35,049 --> 00:44:38,469
Even the death of my wife
does not content her.
487
00:44:41,222 --> 00:44:43,433
Has she not asked enough of my house?
488
00:44:43,933 --> 00:44:46,561
It is a sign of her great esteem.
489
00:44:47,687 --> 00:44:50,940
Or does she think the position
will compensate me for my loss?
490
00:44:52,191 --> 00:44:53,818
Pledge your peace to King's Landing, then.
491
00:44:54,527 --> 00:44:56,821
They will accept it most gleefully.
492
00:44:59,449 --> 00:45:02,076
Rather I would sail
into the West and be lost.
493
00:45:03,244 --> 00:45:05,245
You have done so before,
494
00:45:05,246 --> 00:45:08,041
at great cost to yourself
and those who loved you.
495
00:45:10,585 --> 00:45:16,299
Rhaenys was not only your wife,
not a thing to be taken from you.
496
00:45:17,133 --> 00:45:19,761
She was a Targaryen princess.
497
00:45:20,511 --> 00:45:21,970
The Queen Who Never Was.
498
00:45:21,971 --> 00:45:24,514
And she flew to Rook's Rest
of her own will.
499
00:45:24,515 --> 00:45:26,975
- In defense of her kin.
- And she died.
500
00:45:26,976 --> 00:45:29,103
She died as she would have
wished to die,
501
00:45:29,771 --> 00:45:32,774
with honor, in dragonfire.
502
00:45:33,358 --> 00:45:34,692
The way my mother chose
503
00:45:36,986 --> 00:45:39,822
and the way I myself wish to meet my end.
504
00:45:46,996 --> 00:45:52,460
I grieve my grandmother who loved me
but I carry her on with me.
505
00:45:53,753 --> 00:45:57,965
I will see Rhaenyra ascend
the Iron Throne, as Rhaenys wished.
506
00:45:58,591 --> 00:46:00,593
As Rhaenys herself should have.
507
00:46:03,388 --> 00:46:06,015
You yourself may do as you see fit.
508
00:46:09,602 --> 00:46:11,187
Granddaughter.
509
00:46:18,695 --> 00:46:21,781
I would make you my heir.
510
00:46:23,366 --> 00:46:25,368
I am blood and fire.
511
00:46:25,952 --> 00:46:28,955
Driftmark must pass to salt and sea.
512
00:46:47,724 --> 00:46:48,933
Your Grace.
513
00:46:52,603 --> 00:46:53,938
You were correct
514
00:46:55,565 --> 00:46:58,192
in saying our best hope of an army
is with Daemon.
515
00:47:00,862 --> 00:47:06,284
And I have, perhaps,
erred in waiting for him to prove himself.
516
00:47:08,327 --> 00:47:10,329
I wish you to go to Harrenhal.
517
00:47:12,081 --> 00:47:14,500
Are you removing me from your council?
518
00:47:16,044 --> 00:47:17,462
Ser Alfred,
519
00:47:18,421 --> 00:47:21,923
I will not deny you have tried
my patience of late,
520
00:47:21,924 --> 00:47:25,761
or that I would prefer a council
more inclined to champion their queen
521
00:47:25,762 --> 00:47:27,305
but...
522
00:47:28,556 --> 00:47:31,850
you and your house served my father well
523
00:47:31,851 --> 00:47:34,979
and I know you will never
accept the Hightower claim.
524
00:47:36,606 --> 00:47:39,233
Not while I live, Your Grace.
525
00:47:42,070 --> 00:47:45,906
We cannot challenge King's Landing
without the Riverlands
526
00:47:45,907 --> 00:47:49,619
but I will not send a message by raven
for Daemon to disregard.
527
00:47:51,996 --> 00:47:56,834
I ask you to reason with him.
528
00:47:58,127 --> 00:48:02,423
Find out his state of mind
and his intentions.
529
00:48:04,634 --> 00:48:06,052
Intentions?
530
00:48:07,220 --> 00:48:10,640
Whether he means to raise a host for me
or for himself.
531
00:48:13,685 --> 00:48:15,019
He would not dare.
532
00:48:15,645 --> 00:48:17,772
Have you known Daemon to lack in daring?
533
00:48:19,357 --> 00:48:23,778
Go now with haste.
I'll send good men to see to your safety.
534
00:48:31,369 --> 00:48:33,996
Have you any message for him?
535
00:48:37,959 --> 00:48:41,170
Tell him I would much like to finish
our last conversation.
536
00:48:43,673 --> 00:48:44,882
Your Grace.
537
00:49:21,252 --> 00:49:22,670
Your Grace.
538
00:49:26,466 --> 00:49:30,678
What is it, Ser Simon?
Is the pudding now served?
539
00:49:31,346 --> 00:49:33,722
The Riverlords have come, Your Grace.
540
00:49:33,723 --> 00:49:36,642
- They wish an audience.
- Now?
541
00:49:37,226 --> 00:49:39,645
- What godless hour is it?
- The wolf.
542
00:49:40,396 --> 00:49:42,231
They are demanding to speak presently.
543
00:50:13,262 --> 00:50:16,556
I see I must begin here
with a lesson in etiquette.
544
00:50:16,557 --> 00:50:19,894
Or failing that, in proper fear
of your Targaryen master.
545
00:50:21,688 --> 00:50:25,900
Is there some reason you feel free
to wake a king in his bed?
546
00:50:26,776 --> 00:50:29,236
Or shall I now begin your education?
547
00:50:29,237 --> 00:50:34,616
House Bracken have been brought to heel
at the hands of Willem Blackwood.
548
00:50:34,617 --> 00:50:37,911
- That news is stale.
- Yes.
549
00:50:37,912 --> 00:50:39,871
There have been complications.
550
00:50:39,872 --> 00:50:44,084
The sacred septs on Bracken lands
were looted and burned.
551
00:50:44,085 --> 00:50:45,794
As were the fields and farms.
552
00:50:45,795 --> 00:50:49,256
The livestock was stolen
and our peasants put to the sword.
553
00:50:49,257 --> 00:50:51,550
They pursued the women and the children.
554
00:50:51,551 --> 00:50:53,093
There were works of barbarity.
555
00:50:53,094 --> 00:50:57,055
Punishing Bracken for his own treasons
is one thing, aye.
556
00:50:57,056 --> 00:50:59,808
- But these other acts.
- The Brackens were given their chance.
557
00:50:59,809 --> 00:51:02,269
- They would not see reason.
- The Blackwoods have exploited
558
00:51:02,270 --> 00:51:04,312
the war for the crown to visit atrocities
559
00:51:04,313 --> 00:51:05,981
- upon their old rivals.
- I have seen my fair share of
560
00:51:05,982 --> 00:51:08,233
their quarrels, and I tell you,
there is no honor in a fight
561
00:51:08,234 --> 00:51:10,277
- such as this.
- Honor? What of common decency?
562
00:51:10,278 --> 00:51:14,406
These beasts proudly carried
the banner of House Targaryen.
563
00:51:14,407 --> 00:51:16,367
Red dragon on black.
564
00:51:22,957 --> 00:51:26,169
A terrible war
is being fought in these lands.
565
00:51:29,672 --> 00:51:31,674
Have you looked after our girls?
566
00:51:39,223 --> 00:51:41,224
We should've expected
nothing more from a man
567
00:51:41,225 --> 00:51:44,812
who ordered the slaughter of a child
in his mother's arms.
568
00:51:47,065 --> 00:51:50,275
That is a lie. And I will have the man
who told it brought before me.
569
00:51:50,276 --> 00:51:54,989
Well, your man is half the kingdom,
my prince.
570
00:51:57,950 --> 00:51:59,952
Know this, interloper:
571
00:52:00,661 --> 00:52:03,455
the Riverlands are an ancient place,
572
00:52:03,456 --> 00:52:06,959
watched closely by the eyes
of old gods and new.
573
00:52:07,460 --> 00:52:09,294
And dragon or no,
574
00:52:09,295 --> 00:52:12,590
we shall not raise
our banners for a tyrant.
575
00:53:20,616 --> 00:53:24,454
- Move along, lass.
- I have an errand for the lady Mysaria.
576
00:53:25,705 --> 00:53:26,914
I thought she was dead.
577
00:53:27,832 --> 00:53:30,043
Would she die without collecting her due?
578
00:53:31,711 --> 00:53:33,546
I must see an old friend.
579
00:53:35,298 --> 00:53:37,300
Most people want out these days.
580
00:54:22,595 --> 00:54:23,554
Elinda.
581
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,442
Was it worth the price?
582
00:56:08,493 --> 00:56:10,119
{\an8}Mummy.
583
00:56:27,303 --> 00:56:28,721
Prince Jacaerys, Your Grace.
584
00:56:53,496 --> 00:56:54,914
Visenya.
585
00:56:55,915 --> 00:57:00,753
Vhagar's first rider,
and the first wielder of Dark Sister.
586
00:57:03,131 --> 00:57:05,424
I hope you do not mean to use her
as an example.
587
00:57:05,425 --> 00:57:07,092
Why shouldn't I?
588
00:57:07,093 --> 00:57:09,345
It was a long time ago.
589
00:57:19,647 --> 00:57:21,858
What is the mood at the Twins?
590
00:57:23,484 --> 00:57:25,695
Did his lordship quibble?
591
00:57:28,197 --> 00:57:31,826
He wishes for the Freys
to be granted Harrenhal.
592
00:57:33,327 --> 00:57:35,538
At war's end. Assuming.
593
00:57:38,332 --> 00:57:42,337
I'm proud of you, Jace.
You have done our cause a great service.
594
00:57:44,839 --> 00:57:47,592
Then, why do you look angry?
595
00:57:56,017 --> 00:57:58,935
You chafed at being prevented from action.
596
00:57:58,936 --> 00:58:04,567
Imagine my lot. I'm a dragonrider as well,
with a war being fought over my ascension.
597
00:58:05,777 --> 00:58:07,779
And yet, I must wait here,
598
00:58:08,738 --> 00:58:10,573
always prudent,
599
00:58:11,199 --> 00:58:14,869
sending others to fight
and be felled in my name.
600
00:58:15,411 --> 00:58:17,622
Even you have managed to do your part.
601
00:58:18,289 --> 00:58:19,916
You are the queen,
602
00:58:20,458 --> 00:58:21,750
the tie that binds us.
603
00:58:21,751 --> 00:58:23,418
- No harm can come to you.
- And you are my son,
604
00:58:23,419 --> 00:58:25,505
and I did not give you leave to go.
605
00:58:27,632 --> 00:58:30,259
You do not give me
leave to go to anything.
606
00:58:30,677 --> 00:58:33,804
But who else is there? Rhaenys is dead,
and Baela cannot bear the burden alone.
607
00:58:33,805 --> 00:58:35,932
And when Aemond comes hunting for you?
608
00:58:36,557 --> 00:58:38,809
Your dragon is young.
609
00:58:38,810 --> 00:58:40,895
Will you fly before Vhagar as Luke did?
610
00:58:47,860 --> 00:58:49,696
Perhaps Daemon could...
611
00:58:53,199 --> 00:58:55,034
Daemon is not here.
612
00:58:55,910 --> 00:58:58,121
And Aemond now rules in King's Landing.
613
00:58:59,706 --> 00:59:01,039
Is Aegon dead?
614
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,750
Dead or alive,
we have no answer for Vhagar.
615
00:59:03,751 --> 00:59:07,046
Aemond will not wait long
to press his advantage. And then what?
616
00:59:09,549 --> 00:59:13,386
I have done all I can from here,
sent my messages, invoked my alliances.
617
00:59:14,345 --> 00:59:16,514
But if all else fails,
it is I who must fight.
618
00:59:18,433 --> 00:59:21,393
Vhagar is big, but Syrax is quicker.
619
00:59:21,394 --> 00:59:22,561
So was Meleys.
620
00:59:22,562 --> 00:59:25,898
Meleys fought two dragons
and one of them is slain.
621
00:59:27,817 --> 00:59:28,900
Shall I fight for my birthright?
622
00:59:28,901 --> 00:59:31,612
Or shall I wait here
until we are all destroyed?
623
00:59:37,452 --> 00:59:39,370
I need dragons.
624
00:59:42,874 --> 00:59:45,793
We have no dearth of dragons.
625
00:59:46,669 --> 00:59:49,671
We have two large enough
to stand against Vhagar.
626
00:59:49,672 --> 00:59:54,509
They are called Vermithor and Silverwing
and they sleep just beneath our feet.
627
00:59:54,510 --> 00:59:57,847
Yes, and if only they had riders,
none could stand against me.
628
00:59:58,598 --> 01:00:01,809
I would go forth in strength
and not from necessity.
629
01:00:03,186 --> 01:00:04,562
There is Rhaena.
630
01:00:05,271 --> 01:00:07,648
Who nearly lost
her life in her last attempt.
631
01:00:09,150 --> 01:00:11,152
I would not risk it again.
632
01:00:17,075 --> 01:00:20,078
There are those of our line
who never ruled.
633
01:00:20,953 --> 01:00:27,250
Those who married into other noble houses,
their children born with other names.
634
01:00:27,251 --> 01:00:30,837
A generation ago, or more.
Their blood would be thin.
635
01:00:30,838 --> 01:00:32,340
And yet...
636
01:00:33,716 --> 01:00:37,844
A dragon will only accept
a dragonlord to ride it.
637
01:00:37,845 --> 01:00:41,890
- Or so say the histories.
- Valyrian histories.
638
01:00:41,891 --> 01:00:43,810
Written to gild us in glory.
639
01:00:46,813 --> 01:00:49,440
Are you suggesting we put
a Mallister on a dragon?
640
01:00:50,024 --> 01:00:53,444
- A Tarly?
- It's better than death and defeat.
641
01:00:59,450 --> 01:01:02,911
There are records here,
surely, of our line
642
01:01:02,912 --> 01:01:05,164
and of those who fell out of it.
643
01:01:12,672 --> 01:01:14,298
There could be scores of them.
644
01:01:21,973 --> 01:01:23,808
It's a mad thought.